Posted on 06/03/2009 12:52:15 AM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld
The United States has agreed to sell "bunker-buster" bombs to South Korea that are capable of destroying underground facilities in North Korea, a military official said Tuesday. W ashington recently approved the sale of GBU-28 bombs, which were used during the 1990-91 Gulf War to destroy underground command centres in Iraq, a defence ministry official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
The laser-guided bombs, which could be used to hit North Korean missiles and aircraft stored underground, will be delivered to South Korea between 2010 and 2014, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported.
It said that in the event of war South Korean jet fighters would carry the bombs to attack underground targets such as North Korea's nuclear facilities and artillery hidden in caves.
South Korea also plans to purchase other high-tech bombs such as JDAMs, JASSMs and GBU-24s, Yonhap said.
GBU-24s perform better at low altitudes and under poor visibility conditions. JDAMs with global positioning systems would be effective against North Korean artillery while JASSMs are precision cruise missiles, Yonhap said.
"These high-tech bombs are some of the most urgently needed weapons for us to deal with North Korean missile sites and artillery guns," a source told the news agency.
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Better get a move on; South Korea may need them sooner rather than later.
US might just want to consider selling bunker bombs to Israel too. Oh, I forgot, Obama hates Israel.
But he loves the Norkies too, or so I thought. But again they can’t really supply him with much of any resource, so no harm in throwing these token commies under the bus.
That ship sailed on January 20th at 11:59 a.m.
They’d better buy a boatload as a huge portion of the Nork’s military assets are in underground tunnels and bunkers.
The United States sold Israel 500 bunker busters already
I agree. Time is starting to run out.
Believe me. The South Koreans will be on par with Israel with bunker busters
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